The juvenile work presents a reduction among the beneficiaries of the children of Bolsa Familia, says Ibge

In the homes that have assistance, the percentage of people aged 5 to 17 in the juvenile work was 5.2%, which represented 717 thousand people.

The percentage of children and adolescents presented to child labor decreases more pronounced among the residents of the families who benefit from Bolsa Familia, the social assistance program of the Federal Government.

In the homes that have assistance, the percentage of people aged 5 to 17 in the juvenile work was 5.2%, which represented 717 thousand people. In the country as a whole, that is, without separating those who receive Bolsa Familia, the proportion is 4.3%, which includes 1.65 million people.

In the observation of the historical evolution of these data, it is clear that it has decreased the difference between the two groups.

In 2016, the distance was 2.1 percentage points. Among the beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia, the proportion was 7.3% of people aged 5 to 17. In Brazil as a whole, 5.2%. The smallest point of this distance is precisely 2024: 0.9 percentage points.

“Despite this difference, it is interesting to note that in the whole historical series, the children and teenagers of families have benefited from Bolsa Familia have had a more pronounced reduction in the percentage of those in the juvenile work, compared to the total of people of this age group”, says the sources of the researcher of Ibge Gustavo.

The discovery is in a special edition of the National Continuous Household Sample Survey (PNAD), published this Friday 19 September, by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

The information relating to the beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia includes the data of the period 2021 at the beginning of 2023, when the program was called Brazil AID.

What is child work

To classify the juvenile work, Ibge follows the guidelines of the international work organization (ILO), which conceptualizes it as “dangerous and harmful to the health and mental, physical, social or moral development of children and which interferes with their school”. Informal and excessive trips to the classification are added.

Therefore, not all activities of the work of children and teenagers are considered a child. Brazilian law imposes delimitations:

• Up to 13 years, any form of work is prohibited.
• From 14 to 15 years, the work is allowed only in the form of the apprentice.
• At 16 and 17 years old, there are restrictions at work without a formal, night, unhealthy and dangerous contract.

The Ibge Survey reveals that in the houses that received Bolsa Familia in 2024, the monthly income per person was $ 604, about a third of the performance of houses that has not received Bolsa Familia (R $ 1,812).

The IBGE investigation shows that children and teenagers of beneficiary families in total 13.8 million people, 36.3% of the population of this age group. Among those subjected to juvenile work, there are 43.5% of people in this situation.

School attendance

Analyst Gustavo Fontes underlines that the beneficiaries of children and teenagers of Bolsa Familia and in the juvenile labor situation present school attendance rates higher than the total of people who carry out juvenile work.

Among the beneficiaries, the percentage is 91.2%, exceeding the sign of 88.8% of the total of children and young people in child work.

“Among the little ones, we observe practically a universalization of school attendance, regardless of the reception of family scholarships, while for slightly older groups, the percentage of Bolsa Familia was a slightly higher school frequency,” he says.

In group 16-17 years, among the beneficiaries, 82.7% are students. Average of all those who are subject to child work, 81.8% participate.

PNAD shows that, in fact, juvenile work is associated with lower school attendance. Among the children and young people who do not carry out juvenile work, 97.5% attend school. In the group from 16 to 17 years, there are 90.5%, that is, the increasingly high levels of those subjected to juvenile work, regardless of the fact that the residents of houses receiving Bolsa Familia.

Source: Terra

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